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Show This, That And i The Other BY LES DAVIDSON i While a resident, of the east we have mentioned Salt Lake City and invariably those who have seen this city are voluable in their praise of this city. Just as a suggestion, we would put it up to those who define the tracks of civic affairs, that 21st South-one South-one of the main thoroughfares entering Salt Lake City has on each side of the road, outside of the sidewalk line, a growth of j weeds that are just now in the stage of flowering. Why not put some of the employees of the city to cutting these weeds instead, of waiting until teey dry and can be burned off? There are foxtail, alfalfa, yellow clover, wild .Horning .Horn-ing glories, wild oats, wild egg plant and other weed pests whose seeds are washed down the gutters gut-ters and serve to spread those pests. Keep the good reputation that our city has and join the ' ranks of those who are devoted to the elimination of weeds. This , country still has horses and mowing mow-ing machines, manpower should 'not bother, for the city fathers I have men mow the lawns which are the property of the city, they could eliminate many weeds. This is just a suggestion, will you 'accept it and help make our streets more beautiful. j Senator Lodge has started the ; ball rolling toward the securing of an adequate compensation for i the families of enlisted men. This i is necessary now since the army has begun taking the fathers who .have little ones born before the declaration of hostilities. Thi3 ! is absolutely necessary because a fighting man no matter how brave he might be cannot do his best while worrying about his family and loved ones at home. Perhaps the powers that be will take the next fourteen days to prepare for the finish of a truce declared by John L. Lewis. One way to get the better of that beetled-browed Welshman would be to place all the coal miners in uniform, place sergeants and cor-iporals cor-iporals over them instead of fore-men, fore-men, treat them the same as a I private soldier. That would take jthe authority away from Lewis land get the coal mined. Soldiers of the fighting army cannot mine I coal with their bayonets, but min-ier.s min-ier.s in U. S. uniform and under the authority of the army, coal will be dug, for the miners will have to obey order3 issued by their superior officers. Production will go ahead, even if Lewis de- sires to stop it, our fighting men across the sea will receive the supplies of armor, guns and bullets bul-lets necessary for the completion of their job. It is a fact that those who labor in the depths of the earth are not rewarded sufficiently, sufficien-tly, but is the nation's crisis a time to strike, walkout, or whatever what-ever you may call it, to gain their point? Rather they will establish more firmly any opinion unfavorable unfav-orable maybe which the greater proportion of the citizenry may have towards labor. Understand Jwe are not against Unionism merely against those who use lab-!or lab-!or unions for their own nefarious ends, Sugar House is an integral part !of Salt Lake City and so should be recognized by the press of the I greater part ' of the city. It was I the location of the first beet sugar mill in the United. States, the mill stood where the Success Market now stands and was a memorial to the ingenuity and progressiveness of the pioneers who has the courage to trek west and develop this state from an undeveloped range country into-one into-one which has taken its place among the best agricultural states stat-es of the West. Co-operation, not envy should mark the utterances of the press in the greater Salt Lake, they should help to build up this community instead of casting thinly veiled slurs at this part of the city. There are many residents resi-dents here now and they are proud of the fact that they are residents of the Southeast part of the city and that they are now living in the place which saw the beginning of what has developed into one of the largest assests of the entire West No American citizen will say that President Roosevelt .s not done his best in carrying on the war. Provided he is requested or desires to occupy the president's presi-dent's office for another four years, he immediately becomes just another presidential candidate candi-date and loses the prestige that his present high office carries. It seems to the writer that in all fairness to the American people the present incombent should re. frain from becoming just another anoth-er candidate. (Continued on page 5) THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER (Continued from page 1) When the rest of the miners in the U. M. W. refrused to continue work because their titular head, John L. Lewis, had not oked the order for them to continue work, even if they were working for Uncle Sam, the miners at Helper, Utah, kept right on with their work and showed their patriotism rather than indulge Lewis's for revenge. With so many women working in the war factories, money coming com-ing into the homes that erstwhile knew a scarcity of cash, it would be one of the most sane ideas to place that ready cash in bonds, maturing in the future, rather than hasten down to some store and purchase fineries that they will not use The government needs that cash NOW to carry on the war, so buy bonds for the future rather than spend the cash like a drunken cowpuncher. |